reports, president trump lashing out at jack smith today trying to portray the investigation as an attempt to rig the 2024 election calling on his supporters to fight against the justice department and fbi in a series of fiery social media posts. as the potential for indictments grows by the day. despite a direct appeal this week from trump s legal team. the special counsel in new video obtained exclusively by nbc news is not ready to show his cards. is an indictment coming soon, sir? is an investigation wrapping up, sir? also today, former new jersey governor chris christie is entering the republican contest kicking off a string of announcements this week from candidates trying to catch donald trump in the polls. and i ll be joined by maryland governor wes moore on the culture wars being waged by top republicans as a wedge issue against democrats. plus a disaster in ukraine, a major dam and electric power plant blown up, thousands are being evacuated from rising floodw
president zelensky has warned the destruction of the dam risks leaving hundreds of thousands of people without healthy water. extensive damage has been caused to buildings and farmland. the united nations has said the breach of the dam is one of the most significant incidents of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the russian invasion, and will have grave and far reaching consequences. moscow has denied destroying the dam, which it controls, instead blaming ukrainian shelling. the pictures you can see there are from one of the towns, these are coming to us live as a sum of the residents look on and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjust arrived, and and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i presume this is part of the evacuations that have been taking place for hours. our first report comes from jon donnison. breached, the nova kakhovka dam, now almost unreco
said that it won t be until later on wednesday, that is today, that we will see the peak water levels. let me just bring will see the peak water levels. let mejust bring in our diplomatic correspondent paul adams who is in kyiv for us. paul, just to touch on some of the scenes that we have seen their of rescue workers trying to help residents, i wonder if you can fill us in with reports that some of those workers have been targeted by shelling? those workers have been targeted by shellin: ? ~ ~ ., shelling? well, i think the thing to remember is shelling? well, i think the thing to remember is that shelling? well, i think the thing to remember is that kherson - shelling? well, i think the thing to remember is that kherson since i shelling? well, i think the thing to remember is that kherson since it| remember is that kherson since it was liberated by ukrainian forces last november has been routinely sheued last november has been routinely shelled from across the river, from the ru
that river, that dam and reservoir were basically the frontlines. so ukrainian officials what is happening on the west bank where people are living, they say tens of thousands of ukrainian civilians are in kind of the danger flood zone and the floodwaters are rising. we do have from ukrainian officials some new numbers. they expect the peak water levels to be reached tomorrow morning. the level will then stabilize after four or five days and then the water will recede, so that may allow for more evacuations. we understand right now given tens of thousands of people are in that danger zone, they have only managed to evacuate 1300 people because of russian shelling. one analyst i spoke with earlier today, as you mentioned 500,000 people he expects will be affected by power losses and flooding, but he expects by tonight, by sun down tonight, 300,000 people will be without safe drinking water in that area. and talk about zaporizhzhia, the power plant.